About Me

I'm just me - a solitary wanderer who trekked across much of the world and recently retired to a small farm in the Ozarks.
My checkered past includes time spent as an Army officer, high school teacher and principal, real estate broker, child protection worker and administrator, and social worker with the U.S. military.
Over the years I have resided in a variety of places including Missouri, Virginia, Okinawa, Kansas, Kentucky, and Arizona. I have also traveled to Germany, Mexico, Canada, Russia, Sweden, Great Britain, Belize, Guatemala, Taiwan, Guam, South Korea, Vietnam, and numerous islands in the Caribbean - including Cuba.
I have ridden in a Russian ambulance, hitch-hiked across Moscow late at night, fought an ostrich, celebrated New Year's at a street party in Hanoi, and bicycled across the Caribbean. My travels have taken me to Ground Zero in Hiroshima, the Bolshoi Ballet, China Beach, and the White House kitchen.
The nine things in life that I am most proud of are my children: Nick, Molly, and Tim, and my grandchildren: Boone, Sebastian, Judah, Olive, Willow, and Sullivan.
Life has been very good to me indeed!

Tuesday, January 8, 2013

Geezers on Patrol (or Grandma Unchained!)

by Pa RockCitizen Journalist

Old people in Arizona are about as common (and bothersome) as
sand fleas, but not nearly as useful. They putt around in their golf carts while complaining endlessly about everything that
has changed in America since Reagan left office.They are by-and-large right-wingers (this
writer is an exception) who eagerly support all of the state’s racist
legislation, and treat our eighty-year-old shurf, Joe Arpaio, like some sort of flabby rock star.And old
Joe takes full advantage of their blind loyalty because, unlike the sand fleas,
these desert pests vote.

Arpaio has enrolled many of Arizona’s shaky seniors into an
organization that he refers to as his “posse,” a group of lightly trained
retirees and cop-wannabes who are armed with their own weapons and get to carry an official posse I.D., much like
the one I had nearly sixty years ago when I was a “Bar-12 Ranger” (a fan club
out of Joplin, Missouri, that paid homage to local television personality,
Ranger Ed Wilson).

Joe Arpaio announced a couple of weeks ago that he was going
to protect schools in Maricopa County, whether they wanted to be protected or
not, by having members of his civilian posse patrol around the schools.Apparently those patrols started today.Geriatric Joe has yet to notify the public as
to which schools are being monitored by these armed patrols, but he has
indicated that it will release a list naming those schools at a news conference
tomorrow.

Our shurf loves his news conferences.

(Sadly, he didn't have a news conference when it was discovered that his department failed to investigate a couple of hundred sex crimes in the city of El Mirage, many involving child victims.)